James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
In Context
15This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
2 Kings 10:16And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Job 5:2For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Habakkuk 1:3Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
John 16:2They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.
Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18
Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →